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How good is Babel fish?

Freiheit · 2010-07-22 16:16:35

I was quite surprised at the quality myself, is the role of a professional translator in danger of becoming obselete?

22-07-2010 4:16pm

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Freiheit

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I was quite surprised at the quality myself, is the role of a professional translator in danger of becoming obselete?

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#2 02-08-2010 10:37pm

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GoogleTrans is pretty darn good for the main European languages.

I work in the field myself and it is a great way of finding out how good a translator is. You wouldn't believe how many candidates run a file through GoogleTrans and expect us not to notice the difference.

Human translators will never become obsolete. Machine translation can take a lot of the grunt work away for technical translations (manuals etc), but certain translations like marketing, press releases, will always require a creative touch that automatic translation just cannot give.

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